Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is fighting to keep his teachers' pension. Hastert's lawyers are challenging the decision by the Teachers' Retirement System to terminate his 16-thousand-dollar annual pension and seek a refund of the two-hundred-23-thousand-dollars he's already been paid.
Hastert's lawyer argues that no charges were ever brought against Hastert for any conduct from his time as a teacher and wrestling coach. Hastert is serving a 15-month sentence for banking crimes linked to payments to cover up his sexual abuse of students. No abuse charges were filed because the stature of limitations had run out.